News headlines for “Racism”, page 125
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Plans for Regional Rights Body Hit Realities
- Inter Press Service
Plans to create a regional human rights body for the ten-nation South-east Asian bloc are threatening to expose the gulf that separates countries that seek to respect political and civil liberties and the notorious violators.
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: India Can Help End Civilian Killings
- Inter Press Service
As Sri Lanka’s armed forces battle the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in their last stronghold, the island country’s influential neighbour, India, is weighing diplomatic options to goad President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government to save civilians trapped in the war zone.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Tiger Census Helping Conservation
- Inter Press Service
One year after India released a scientifically prepared census report of tigers in this country, it is being criticised by some as inadequate and acclaimed by others as a significant step towards stemming the rapid depletion of the big cat through poaching and habitat loss.
U.S.: Gen Y Reads - But Only for Nine Minutes a Day
- Inter Press Service
Are twentysomethings changing the culture of literature?
ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: Warnings From Vanishing Vultures
- Inter Press Service
'The thought of my carcass being pecked at by vultures isn’t at all pleasant,' said Bapsi Sidhwa, a leading Pakistani diasporic writer now living in the United States. She was referring to the ancient Parsi funerary rite of 'sky burial'.
ENVIRONMENT-JAPAN: Jail For Nailing Scientific Whaling Lies?
- Inter Press Service
Two Greenpeace activists who exposed a black market in whale meat run by the crew of Japanese whalers face up to 10 years in jail while the government shows no discomfiture over the nailing of its ‘scientific whaling’ claims.
CHINA: Won't Trade Art Objects For Rights in Tibet
- Inter Press Service
As nationalistic passions burn over the fate of looted Chinese artworks auctioned in Paris this week, Beijing is attempting to keep the focus on past humiliations by Western powers and away from delicate issues like human rights and China’s handling of Tibet.
MIDEAST: The Ball Could be in Israel's Court
- Inter Press Service
Israel's outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rode roughshod over those who piously argue that sport and politics ought not to play in the same arena.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Goa Agitated by Shady Real Estate Deals
- Inter Press Service
Simmering resentment against major, concrete development in rural Goa - famous for its exotic beaches and idyllic rural countryside - has now exploded in violent agitations against corrupt local administrations.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Year Later Apology to Lost Generations Looks Hollow
- Inter Press Service
One year after the historic apology made to indigenous Australians by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on behalf of the nation, conjecture remains over whether enough has been done to support the acknowledgement of wrongs inflicted on the first Australians.
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